Curb Cuts and Computers: Advocating for Design Equality in the 1980s.
This article concerns the history of the curb cut metaphor as applied to personal computer technology in the 1980s. Disability advocates used the metaphor to argue the necessity for accessibility features on computers to enable greater access. To accomplish this goal, these advocates utilized a comp...
| Publicado en: | Design Issues Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 23 - 33 |
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